The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-30
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mr. GEO. w. CHILDs will present to the West
Point Military Academy life-size painting of
General Grant.
THE Empress Eugene is said to be contem-
plating tour through the United States, trav-
cling incognito.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE was forty years of
age when "Uncle Toms Cabin" was published
She is now seventy-fve
The Car has honored the Queen of Holland
with the Grand Cross of the Order for Women,
founded by Peter the Great in 1714
Miss MARY DICKENS, granddaughter Of the
novelist, who is on the stage, is receiving full
some praise from the English provincial papers.
ST. Louis Post Dispatch: The railroad COM
parties are requesting the holders of passes to
hand them over by the LIST of April; they want to
make it sort of feast of the passover.
WASHINGTON Critic: In the Police Court
Judge-What is your occupation? Prisoner
I'm a poet. your Honor. Judge-Here. Mr.. Of
fcer take this prisoner before the grand jury.
SIG. NIcoLINI says that mono of the cyclope-
dias or biographical dictionaries have ever print
ed Nine. PATHS name correctly. and he adds that
the name which she received in baptism is Adele
Juana Maria
THE Prince Imperial of Germany is suffering
from bronchitis, which has assumed such
chronic form as to cause uneasiness. The Prince
will shortly leave Berlin for the Tyrol, where he
will spend the spring and early summer.
1T is supposed to be considerably over four
thousand years since the great engineering
works necessitated by the overfows of the yell
low river were undertaken by Yao aud Shun that
have made their names famous in the annals of
China
GERONIMO is very crafty savage In letter
to his wives and children at St Augustine he
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and God are very closely united" And again:
II think of God the President and you in the
| same light"
Mr. SIDNEY BARTLETT, one Of Bostons best
| known lawyers, is eighty-eight years DID, yet his
bodily strength is little impaired, and he is said
never to have exhibited greater intellectual Wig
| or than in a recent argument in an important
case that he was conducting
| THE reason, it is said, why Psince Albert Vic
tor was sent to Gibraltar was that the Prince of
Wales found his son taking great fancy to the
gayeties of London society; also. that he had
| fallen in love with Princess Mary Teck the pref
was disapproved by the Queen and the Princess
| of Wales.
| IT is lately rumored that Miss Flood, once the
fnancee of Ulysses Grant, jr., is to be married to
a distinguished physician in San Francisco.
| Miss Flood is neither young nor pretty. but has
| plenty of ducats. '"They say" that Ulysses once
overheard his prospective mother -in-law, whom
| he had never SEEN say: whist jimmie, J.issus
is coming" but the young man retreated and
| never again returned to the Flood mansion.
A LADY passenger on homeward- bound ocean
| steamer was much amused at the Irritation OF
the steamer surgeon and one of the fair passen
gers One day, when the breeze waited strongly
| in her direction, these words were borne to her
from the loving couple: Its chilly" said the
young lady; II feel as If a goose were watkins
| over my grave" do you?" asked the surgeon
tenderiy. 81 wish were that goose" No cards.
A COW. suffering from pleuro- pueumonia was
killed near Lancaster, on Saturday, and one lobe
of it's lung was found to weigh forty pounds
| The healthy lung of cow weighs only from
two and quarter to three and half pounds
The usual weight of diseased lungs in cattle from
| pleuro pneumonia is from sixteen to eighteen
pounds, but the surgeon who handled this case
| says he has seen cases in which they weighed
seventy five pounds.
A VERY useful, though little known, laboratory
in Paris is that devoted to anthopometry as ap
piled to the Identification of criminals It i.
popu larly called the eject bureau In this lab
oratory every criminal. when taken into custody
is subjected to thorough anthropometrical ex
| animation. He is Invested Of all clothing anC
the form and dimensions of his head face
fingers, feet, body, ETC., are accurately noted
down. and his face is photographed
THE State Department at the capital has
collection of the private papers of Washington
which includes of mis- orders for replenshin,
Martha's wardrobe. The bill is long one, ant
among the items there are two pairs of woment
white silk hose. six pairs of fine cotton hose art
four pairs of four threaded hose, two pairs O
satin shoes and four pairs of shoes made O
CLOTH Twenty pounds for $l00) worth of Brus
sells or point lace are ordered, and there is I
striking item Of six pounds Of perfumed powder.